HB Playwrights Short Play Festival 2000


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The variety, originality, and spontaneity of these plays is a testament to what happens when you give gifted, committed playwrights the opportunity to write a short play knowing that it will be produced. In their hands it has been proven to be a risk that pays off. At the heart of this event is the imaginative impulse of a playwright writing a play knowing that it will be produced as opposed to hoping that it will be produced. How liberating that has proven to be for this talented group of writers and for all the actors, directors, and designers who have joined them to work on these plays. - William Carden, Artistic Director, HB Playwrights Theatre.
















The Director as Collaborator


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The Director as Collaborator teaches essential directing skills while emphasizing how directors and theater productions benefit from collaboration. Good collaboration occurs when the director shares responsibility for the artistic creation with the entire production team, including actors, designers, stage managers, and technical staff. Leadership does not preclude collaboration; in theater, these concepts can and should be complementary. Students will develop their abilities by directing short scenes and plays and by participating in group exercises. New to the second edition: updated interviews, exercises, forms, and appendices new chapter on technology including digital research, previsualization and drafting programs, and web-sharing sites new chapter on devised and ensemble-based works new chapter on immersive theater, including material and exercises on environmental staging and audience–performer interaction







The Dramatist


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2004 the Best 10-minute Plays for Two Actors


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These plays were either produced during the 2003 theatrical season or written expressly for these volumes. Some are by well-known playwrights, but most are from "new voices" in the theater. Also, most of these plays feature characters who are 35 or younger to help acting students looking for plays to work on in class and young actors looking for plays to do in showcases.




2005 the Best 10-minute Plays for Two Actors


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Collected from theaters across America, this new ten-minute collection of 26 plays reveals the power and pleasures of this tightly knit form. Plays for One Man and One WomanThe First Time Out of Bounds by P. Seth BauerBethlehem, PA. by Suzanne BradbeerThe Ghost of Red Roses by David CironeStrange Attractions by David EpsteinCloudy by Michael Griffo5G/10B by Michael GriffoThe Record by Deborah Zoe LauferBoxes by Wendy MacLeodDecoding Fruit by Molly Smith MetzlerThe Orphans by Allison MooreBedtime Stories by Brian MoriThe Morning After by Carey PerloffOn the Edge by Craig Pospisil2B (or Not 2B) Part One by Jacquelyn Reingold2B (or Not 2B) Part Two by Jacquelyn ReingoldAurolac Blues by Saviana StanescuA Medical Breakthrough by Frederick StroppelBrother/Bar by Jeff TabnickFoul Territory by Craig WrightI Think You Think I Love You by Kelly YoungerPlays for Two WomenHalasana by Kayla S. CaganWoman of the Theatre by Julie JensenCreatrix by Don NigroDifferent by Lisa SolandDance by Greg ZittelPlays for Two MenTennessee Ten Minute by Dan O?BrienD. L. LEPIDUS is a freelance critic and editor who has covered the New York theater scene for more than twenty-five years. Since 1993, his work has appeared in theater columns for Chelsea Clinton News and the Westsider.